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Caillan Davenport, "Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman…

2/10/2026 • 45 min

In Behind Caesar's Back: Rumor, Gossip, and the Making of the Roman Emperors (Yale UP, 2026), Professor Caillan Davenport presents a thrilling exploration of what Romans thought about their emperors, and how rumors and gossip—ranging from new taxes to rulers’ sex lives—shaped leadership. Traversing more than seven hundred years of Roman history, this book explo… Play episode

Peter S. Goodman, "Davos Man: How the Billionaire Class Devoured Democracy…
Alex Prichard, "Anarchism: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jon R. Lindsay "Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft" (Cor…
Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chishol…
Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-S…
Lisa Min et al. eds., "Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the Stat…
Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun V…
Nathan Munier, "Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade: The State, Resource Politics and…
Blair Kelley, "Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class" (LIverigh…
Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream …
Colette Einfeld and Helen Sullivan, "How to Conduct Interpretive Research:…
Democracy and Its Inter-Connections
Yunus Emre Ozigci, "NATO’s Meaning and Existence: Within the Interstate In…
Duncan Kelly, "Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstructi…
A. Mechele Dickerson, "The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobilit…
Michael J. Illuzzi, "Mending the Nation: Reclaiming We The People in a Pop…
Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became th…
Moritz Föllmer, "The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century Eur…
Keidrick Roy, "American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black L…
Amitav Acharya, "The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization …
Eve Warburton, "Resource Nationalism in Indonesia: Booms, Big Business, an…
Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status…
David Broder, "Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy" (…
Thomas Albert Howard, "Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern Histor…
Mary E. Stuckey, "Remembering Jefferson: Who He Was, Who We Are" (UP of Ka…
Charles G. Thomas, "Ujamaa's Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanza…
Dylan Loh, "China's Rising Foreign Ministry: Practices and Representations…
What happens when liberalism stops feeling like a victory and starts feeli…
Florentine Koppenborg, "Japan's Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safet…
James Greenwood-Reeves, "Justifying Violent Protest: Law and Morality in D…
Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Bernard Forjwuor, "Critique of Political Decolonization" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Amitav Acharya, "Tragic Nation: Burma--Why and How Democracy Failed" (Peng…
Joel S. Wit, "Fallout: The Inside Story of America's Failure to Disarm Nor…
Jonathan Sumption, "The Challenges of Democracy: And the Rule of Law" (Pro…
Paul Kelly, "Against Postliberalism: Why ‘Family, Faith and Flag’ is a Dea…
Weila Gong, "Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chine…
Kwame Nkrumah and Pan-Africanism’s High Tide: A Conversation with Howard W…
Jeff Roche, "The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New R…
Celina Su, "Budget Justice: On Building Grassroots Politics and Solidari…
Matt Sleat, "Post-Liberalism" (Polity, 2025)
Stephen Skowronek, "The Adaptability Paradox: Political Inclusion and Cons…
Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Viole…
The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies
Mark Griffiths, "Checkpoint 300: Colonial Space in Palestine" (U Minnesota…
Brooke Barbier, "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Foundin…
Is a River Alive?: A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane

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